Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-24

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advance of trade and prosperity. The
momentum increases-there is to be no
more marking time" Sacramento
marches
W. NJ. PETRIE,
School Director, says: I" want to thank
the REooRD-UNIoN for the good it is doing
this city, its surroundings, and in fact for
the whole northern part of the State. We
want more of enterprise and push and less
of the pulling down of a project, simply
because it is conceived in the brains of our
rivals. newspaper should be representa-
tive of the whole people, and when it proves
itself such, people have confidence in 1t, and
confidence backed by capital and personal
effort, can work wonders in this or any
other country. | had a talk with Trustee
Jones to-day about
STREET IMPROVEMENTS.
have asked him to introduce and
have passed an ordinance forbidding the
| building of any but suspension awnings
| in the business portion of the CITY.
| [such an ordinance was passed in San
| francisco seventeen years ago and has
been enforced ever since-Reporterl and
pointed out TO him that of L. L. Lewis &
Co. at Fifth and streets as fair sample
to adopt. The old rickety wooden awnings
on and k streets, that have shielded US
from the rain and sun for the past thirty
years, are positively disgrace to our CITY.
| They are of all sizes, are not uniform in
any respect, are ready to fall at any time.
and are veritable death traps | saw, away
with them, and up with the modern STYLE,
which are neat, safe, seryiceable and not
| expensive. l was amused at a customer
in my store this evening who was critjsis-
ing the boom articles on suburban Sac
ramento. He said the proposition was
absurd. Why not boom the city first? Nv
answer to him was, and l think it is con-
| elusive, boom the country and the city will
take care of itself, and that the expressions
| have read include both city and suburbs.
There can be no city without substantial
country backing, and thickly populated
and prosperous country will
MAKE BUSINESS
In the nearest city so lively that the CITY
folks will hustle on the paint, pile brick
upon brick, enlarge the granaries, increase
| the facilities for the transaction of bus
mess and keep pace with the granger.
| The two always go together, but never
the one without the other. These local
trains proposed by the railroad company
| Will, in great measure, revolutioniZe the
| manner OF living among the laboring
men. Instead OF paying high rates for
| tenements, they will move into the country
buy few acres and the garden will support
the COW "a perfect boon TO the family), and
the poultry-yard will assist in the support
of the family; people will live better, eniov
better health, their wages will go further
and we will have altogether a happier and
more contented population in and out of
the city. We have more wealth in Sacra-
| mento than any city of its size in the
State. Millionaires ride by my store every
day who are investing their coin in other
portions of the State instead of here. WHY
is 1t? 1t is not because otter localities
| enjoy peculiar and better privileges, but it
is because their people are alive up and
dong, and make business, and keep it
going We want more push here We
want men to propose, men to lead. men
to take hold of enterprises with a push
and less of this petty jealousy that
crops out on every hand. Let the
people of Sacramento harmonic upon
any proposition, and it will go through like
a flash. Do not cough down a proposition
| simply because rival has the temeritv to
| propose it, Do not swear stalk of grain
is only three feet high simply because it
belongs to another fellow, when you have
measured it and know it to be six. Let us
have no more boys play"
| JOHN r. COOPER.
Yes, feel that the era of better times
is here, and more of it is coming. business
is good with me, very good. Sacramento
IS thriving but we ought not to sit still for
that reason but do more. wish that I'M
slightly slough could be transformed
and those old shabby houses got
out of l street. The outside co4n-
try around Sacramento is the best
IN the State, and why not settle some
ofthe strangers pouring into the State, upon
| our suburban lands, to contribute to the
city's growth? l am very glad the spirit is
moving the people to improve If every
man will do little, it will amount in all
to great good. People like to come to
| live town"
T. c, PERKINS, OF BRIGHTON
| The BOOM as you call it, is surely
coming it is here. All these outside sec
tons will be filled up soon. I am satisfied
there will be no initiation. We've got the
best section OF the State right here. and
there is no reason it should not be thickly
| settled with the new people coming into
| the State, and it will be-" Mr. Perkins was
very enthusiastic and sanguine, and spoke
IN the strongest terms of what can be and
should be done, and in still warmer terms
| of obstructionists.
| II. wEIYsTocK
Favored any and every effort for local
improvement. He was satisfied not
only OF the. need for it, but of
| the ability of the people to begin
and carry it on. We do not realize" said
Captain Weinstock. how our city appears
TO the stranger. Outside of the residence
portion, there is, in all the country have
Travelled over at the East North and South,
no town of like importance that appears to
such disadvantage, except in the far South,
| W nrp tha SnIrit Ot
reached. This ought not to be- If we can
push local pride to more effort it will be
great step forward. l will aid all | can all
such efforts. 1t will be very good thing,
indeed, TO have the movement for local i'm
proving pushed forward"
| l. L. LEWIS
Said, There's millions in it. Do Won
want to know what l see in the near fu-
ture? | am sanguine, you know. Well.
| here Is my prophecy Lake Como filled
| the railroad track on / street taken I'D and
put on the alley between II and l, making
the north side of / the natural place for
all the wholesale business, leaving good
street in front and the cars at the back-do0r
GA the alley. A cable-car line running
from the depot on Third street to |. up to
| way out, returning down J to the depot
on Third. great ditch leading the thou
sands OF inches of water now III the hills
between the American and Costumes to a
point of SEQ feet elevation south of Folsom.
then taken in large pipes and brought down
to the city, and innumefanle manufactures
of every description will locate here when
We are ready to give them 40-horse power
for twenty-tour hours for 50, which can be
done, as ii will leave the water on the sur
face for irrigation. The whole country
| from the American river 10 the Costumes,
and from the foothills to the Sacramento
nver, Will be divided into homes of from
one 10 ten acres for the men working in
the manufactures, and their places irri-
gated with this water left from these
that wants just such location for
\ STOVE FOUNDRY.
And there are scores of them TO come
| WHEN we can piYe ihnnl norrer ut q 49,